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Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

This document aims
to describe how to manage the VAS Portal Vascular Independent Research
and Education European Organization (hereinafter referred to as "VAS"),
in relation to the processing of personal data of users who access it,
after registration, or who use it. The disclosure, made in accordance
with art. 13 d. Lgs. 196/2003 - code on the subject of personal data
protection - for those who connect to the site vascampus.vas-int.net of
VAS-Vascular-Independent Research and Education-European Organization.
The Report also takes into account the recommendation n. 2/2001 that the
European authorities for personal data protection have adopted to
identify certain minimum requirements for collecting personal data
on-line. This statement only concerns the website vascampus.vas-int.net and
not other websites that the user may consult through links within the
portal.

Data Processing

The processing
operations connected to the web services of this website take place at
Aruba s.p.a. Piazza Garibaldi 8, 52010 Soci-Arezzo, and are only handled
by technical personnel of the Department in charge of processing, or by
persons in charge of occasional maintenance operations. Authentic
conditions of Aruba s.p.a.

No data deriving
from the web service, following consultation, is distributed, while some
data may be communicated to third parties only for statistical
purposes.

The personal
details provided by users who request dispatch of informative material
(brochures, invitations, CD-ROMs, newsletters, annual reports, answers
to questions, acts and proceedings, etc.) are used with the sole purpose
of supplying or performing the service requested and are communicated
to third parties only if this is necessary for that purpose, and find
appropriate information and support related to the processing of
personal data (d.Lgs. 196/2003) in reference to specific treatment.

In order to take
advantage of certain portal services you may need to subscribe to the
portal itself by filling in a special VAS registration form.

The conferment of
personal data indicated with an asterisk in the above form is required
to complete the registration procedure; Therefore the failure, partial
or incorrect insertion of the data invalidates the registration and
therefore will not be able to take advantage of the services themselves.
The conferment of data not marked with an asterisk (such as an
alternative email address or mpbile phone number etc.), is purely
optional; so the lack of, partial or incorrect insertion will not affect
your subscribing to the portal and access services.The personal data
inserted in the profile will not be published in the pages of VAS portal
and therefore will not visible to any Internet users via search
engines.

There is however the possibility to:

• modify at any
time your personal data or delete (unsubscribe) them. Therefore, after
registration, in order to access the portal's services, you must insert
the same authentication credentials in the appropriate box on the site.

Navigation data

The computer
systems and software procedures used to operate the VAS portal acquire,
during their normal exercise and for the duration of the connection,
some personal data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet
communication protocols. This information is not collected in order to
bind them to interested parties identified but, by their very nature
could, through elaborations and associations with data held by third
parties, make it possible to identify users (e.g. IP address), the
domain names of the terminals used, addresses in URI notation (Uniform
Resource Identifier) of the applicants, the requested time, etc. These
data, immediately cancelled after processing, are used for the sole
purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on site usage and
to check its correct operation.

Data provided voluntarily by the user

The
optional, explicit and voluntary sending, to the address indicated on
the personal information portal to access certain services, in some
areas, involves the successive acquisition of the sender's address by
VAS or any other personal information will be used solely to respond to
the request or for the provision of the service. Students' personal
data, acquired through the registration and enrolment or with any
subsequent special means of collection, will be processed to conduct
its institutional activities, within the limits established by law and
regulations, in accordance with the General principles of transparency,
fairness and confidentiality. The optional, explicit and voluntary
sending of e-mails to the addresses indicated on this website entails
the subsequent acquisition of the sender's address, needed to answer
his/her requests, and of any other personal data inserted in the
missive. It is assured, however, that this treatment will be based on
principles of correctness, lawfulness and transparency and protection of
confidentiality as indicated in Legislative Decree 196/03. Specific
summaries will be progressively reported or displayed in the pages of
the sites prepared for particular services on request.

Cookies

The VASCAMPUS portal uses
only session c.d. cookies which are not stored permanently on the user's
terminal, but disappear when the browser is closed. Their use is
strictly limited to transmitting session identifiers (consisting of
random numbers generated by the server that allow to discriminate the
user automatically) necessary to allow the safe and efficient navigation
of the portal's pages. The session cookie may remain on the user's
terminal for up to 15 days in case the same voluntarily enables the
function c.d. "remember me”. The session cookies used in this site avoid
using other techniques potentially prejudicial to the privacy of users '
browsing and do not allow the acquisition of personal identification
data of the user. Anyway the user can configure the web browser by
defining an appropriate restriction level/security on cookies, deleting
them manually, disabling them and/or blocking them permanently or
restricting the receipt of the cookies in the function of the original
domain. However the latter two cases might preclude the use of some of
the portal's services.

Contents

VAS exerts direct
control over the content and multimedia (pictures, photographs, videos,
etc.) present in the portal and produced by VAS-If some areas are open
to the contribution of third parties: VAS has no control or
responsibility over the content or information produced by third parties
even if published through the portal services. VAS, in fact, makes no
warranties, expressed or implied, about the legality, accuracy and
reliability of information and content provided by third parties. VAS
disclaims any liability with regard to the control of the content, that
is not reviewed before its publication, or inappropriate behaviour by
users within the services of the portal. Any publication of multimedia
content from a third party, shall take place in compliance with the
current legislation regarding the protection of personal data. VAS
anyway, in its sole discretion and without notice, reserves the right to
remove any content that constitutes a violation of the cases provided
for by the terms of use or which may be offensive, illegal, detrimental
to the rights of others and represents damage, an invasion of privacy or
the safety of anyone. VAS also is not responsible if the site
navigation or access to discussion space leads to consultation of
information it deems undesirable.

OPTIONAL NATURE OF DATA CONFERMENT

Apart from that
specified for data navigation, users are free to supply their personal
data. The failure to provide this personal data may render the obtaining
of requested information impossible.

DATA PROCESSING METHODS

The personal data
collected in the specific sections of this website, are processed
through the use of automated tools and/or manually and only for the time
strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which the data were
collected.

VAS observes,
however, the regulations in force in order to prevent the loss of data,
illicit or incorrect use and unauthorized access.

USERS' RIGHTS

The person
responsible for the processing of personal data has the right, in
accordance with art. 7 Legislative Decree 196/2003, to obtain, at any
time, confirmation of the existence or not of personal data, to know its
content and origin, verify its accuracy or request its integration,
updating or rectification, erasure or blocking.

Normative references

The processing of personal data is regulated by Legislative Decree No. 196/03.

Go to The guarantor for the protection of personal data website.

Access to the file (Law 241/90 e s.m.i D.P.R. 184/06)

The "regulations
for the implementation of the right of access to administrative
documents" is posted so that anyone who has a direct interest, concrete
and current, as indicated by the same law, can find useful information
for exercising his right of access to administrative documents relating
to public interest activities undertaken by VAS. There is also a
facsimile of the instance to be presented for access to administrative
documents available.